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United States President Donald Trump is withdrawing the US from a foundational climate treaty and the world’s leading global warming assessment body, as part of a sweeping exit from the United Nations system, the White House announced on Wednesday.
A total of 66 international organisations — comprised of “35 non-United Nations (UN) organizations and 31 UN entities” were named in a White House memorandum as being “contrary to US national interests, security, economic prosperity, or sovereignty”.
Most notable among them is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the parent treaty underpinning all major international climate agreements.
Trump, who has thrown the full weight of his domestic policy behind fossil fuels, has openly scorned the scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, deriding climate science as a “hoax” at the UN’s high-level summit last September.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was established during the Rio Earth Summit in June 1992 and subsequently ratified by the United States Senate within the same year under the leadership of President George H.W. Bush.
